A butterfly valve of large diameter is commonly used as control equipments in applications where the inlet velocity is fast and the pressure is relatively high. Because of the size of the valve is too large, therefore it's too difficult to conduct the experiment in a laboratory. In this paper, the numerical simulation using commercial package-CFX and ANSYS was conducted. In order to do fluid analysis and structural analysis perfectly, large valve models are generated in three dimensions without much simplification, the result of fluid analysis is also fully coupled to the structural domain by the fluid-structural interface to provide an exacter initial condition. In addition to describe the flow patterns and to measure the performance coefficients when the valves with various open angles were used, the verification of the safety performance whether the valve could work normally at those conditions or not was conducted. Fortunately, the result shows this type valve is safe in a given inlet velocity of 3m/s, and it's not necessary to be strengthened anywhere, and if need be, the shape of valve disc can be optimized to reduce the weight of disc, and also to make the flow coefficient be closer to the suggested level.
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